His understanding on the defensive end is better than last year, and his rebounding has improved. I didn't expect his offensive numbers to go up much because he's not at the top of the pecking order on offence. Give him another summer or two and his offence will take off, and we'll be forced to give him more usage, which will ultimately make us a better team.

Though in this case, although everyone is happy that he got rid of the dead weight and actually got something back in return, we still want to see his true plan for this team, especially with the core pieces, and he's yet to show his cards. It just seems like we're being strung along, and he still hasn't decided which direction he's going in, which could end up backfiring on him by the off season, and that scares the crap out of most of the fan base, as it should given our history. This season is too similar to the Mitchell COY year, and we don't want to see a repeat of what came afterward.

So to answer your question, he's graded low because we're still waiting to see what his true vision of this team is, and everyone hates waiting, but that's part of the game.

Though in this case, although everyone is happy that he got rid of the dead weight and actually got something back in return, we still want to see his true plan for this team, especially with the core pieces, and he's yet to show his cards. It just seems like we're being strung along, and he still hasn't decided which direction he's going in, which could end up backfiring on him by the off season, and that scares the crap out of most of the fan base, as it should given our history. This season is too similar to the Mitchell COY year, and we don't want to see a repeat of what came afterward.

So to answer your question, he's graded low because we're still waiting to see what his true vision of this team is, and everyone hates waiting, but that's part of the game.

Makes sense except if we're still waiting to see what his true vision is he should be given an incomplete as a grade not graded low.

Good question. He worked magic getting rid of Bargs and acquiring a 1st round pick in the process. Also,getting rid of Gay's potential 19M opt in was a relief. However when measuring the team's success,90% of the key players are BC's guys(KL,DD,JV,AV,TR vs PP,TH). He still had to buyout QR and MC,on the hook for Novak and Hayes. The Stone,Buyckys and Daye pickups have all been useless. I think his original intent was to build a crappy team and plan for the future but Colangelo's pieces have stepped up and prevented that. If he can get rid of Fields for something decent he'll get upgraded to an A instantly lol.

Though in this case, although everyone is happy that he got rid of the dead weight and actually got something back in return, we still want to see his true plan for this team, especially with the core pieces, and he's yet to show his cards. It just seems like we're being strung along, and he still hasn't decided which direction he's going in, which could end up backfiring on him by the off season, and that scares the crap out of most of the fan base, as it should given our history. This season is too similar to the Mitchell COY year, and we don't want to see a repeat of what came afterward.

So to answer your question, he's graded low because we're still waiting to see what his true vision of this team is, and everyone hates waiting, but that's part of the game.

So we're grading him on what his future plan is/might be which hasn't been implemented rather then what he's done in his first 6 months?

So we're grading him on what his future plan is/might be which hasn't been implemented rather then what he's done in his first 6 months?

OK...

I think it's true. If he's getting C's from a lot of the fans, what else could it be? Because if you just base it on his current body of work, he should at least get a B or B+, but because his plan hasn't been revealed yet, fans are fearful that he may have waited too long to make a move, and thus factor that into their grades. Grading him on the moves he hasn't made may not be fair, but it is what it is.

Personally, I'm a bit disappointed he wasn't able to position us for tanking, I think he's backed himself in a bit of a corner now. It may turn out for the best, the team may actually be good enough to eventually contend with just tweaks and smart drafting. I'm not all that optimistic. Hence the B grade.

I think it's true. If he's getting C's from a lot of the fans, what else could it be? Because if you just base it on his current body of work, he should at least get a B or B+, but because his plan hasn't been revealed yet, fans are fearful that he may have waited too long to make a move, and thus factor that into their grades. Grading him on the moves he hasn't made may not be fair, but it is what it is.

We're grading players on how they've played TO DATE. Same should go for coaches and the GM. Shouldn't grade him less because he hasn't come out and listed his plans. That's ridiculous

Personally, I'm a bit disappointed he wasn't able to position us for tanking, I think he's backed himself in a bit of a corner now. It may turn out for the best, the team may actually be good enough to eventually contend with just tweaks and smart drafting. I'm not all that optimistic. Hence the B grade.

I think his plan is basically to aquire and retain as much talent as possible as well as future picks so he can eventually bolster the team with trades. I think he realizes you're not getting stars here unless you trade for them, they won't just sign here. In the meantime get s much depth as possible (ala Denver) and eventually parlay some of those players for higher end talent. Think Boston in 2007.

That being said, it's all a guess and grading him on anything other then what he's already don seems asinine to me.

We're grading players on how they've played TO DATE. Same should go for coaches and the GM. Shouldn't grade him less because he hasn't come out and listed his plans. That's ridiculous

As moremilk said, he's backed himself into a corner because he let the team roll on after the Rudy trade when they started to win, and now we're essentially stuck where he said we wouldnt be, which is no mans land.

It may be ridiculous to grade him on something that hasn't happened, but the past plays a part into all of our thinking, and we've seen the same story unfold too many times to be comfortable with what we have right now. It may in fact be all a mirage because of the weak conference we play in, and the possibility that our best player won't return, in which case he'll get an F from me in the off season if we don't win a round this year, nor re-sign Lowry.

As moremilk said, he's backed himself into a corner because he let the team roll on after the Rudy trade when they started to win, and now we're essentially stuck where he said we wouldnt be, which is no mans land.

It may be ridiculous to grade him on something that hasn't happened, but the past plays a part into all of our thinking, and we've seen the same story unfold too many times to be comfortable with what we have right now. It may in fact be all a mirage because of the weak conference we play in, and the possibility that our best player won't return, in which case he'll get an F from me in the off season if we don't win a round this year, nor re-sign Lowry.

To me no man's land isn't a playoff spot, possible division title, cap space the next couple years. The man has been on the job 6-7 months and made two huge moves, not sure why everyone expects him to do everything right away. And yes the weak conference has to be taken into account (which he brought up and knows about) but we also have had one of the shitiest schedules in the league and have done well.

We're grading players on how they've played TO DATE. Same should go for coaches and the GM. Shouldn't grade him less because he hasn't come out and listed his plans. That's ridiculous

What you're saying is true,overall it depends how much value a grader places in the letter. IMO,anything above C+ is good to me. For a player, anything in the A's is all star level unless it's an under the radar player who has greatly exceeded little to no expectations. For a GM like Ujiri, for me to give him above B+ is executive of the year candidacy territory, which I don't think he is right now.